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Me and my friends were just discussing regarding the time spent on facebook and my friend said like "I am pretty sure that I have scrolled KMs of neews feed"

Now that I think about it I have also wasted a lot of time on it. It deserves to be burned.

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That gave me an idea.. As you can't know the user's physical screen size from the browser, would anyone here be interested in an extension that tracks how many pixels you've scrolled on Facebook?

now I am resentful about FB dark patterns and practices like the next guy here, but let's be clear - unless we absolve ourselves from freedom of our choices, it is WE who go here, it s WE who scroll, click likes and shares, talk crap, whateva. All these browser extensions, hosts blacklists, even router settings, out of those capable here, maybe 0.01% did it. I didn't.

All this stuff tells much more about ourselves than some petty (yet highly valuable) company. And most people don't like the message. This is as much about forcing the company to make better product for its users (even if it means its eventual demise, which over long enough timeline is inevitable) as a very valuable introspection. We can skip that part and just hate more, but it would be a wasted opportunity, don't you think?

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